Jennifer Garner has confessed she was intoxicated during a recent appearance on TV lifestyle queen Martha Stewart’s cooking show because she was too busy preparing for the program and drinking champagne to eat.

The actress found herself getting tipsy as she continued to sip bubbly on an empty stomach.

She says, “By the time we get to cooking and having our champagne, I hadn’t had anything to eat … and I got drunk.

“They needed it (champagne drinking) for continuity and it tasted good … and whenever I’m around her (Stewart) I suddenly get really West Virginian and southern … and so I got drunk and southern, and it was the worst combination.

“I can’t bear to watch it because I just started talking faster and faster.”

Ben Affleck doubts he will ever work with his actress wife Jennifer Garner on screen, because he’s still haunted by the box office failure that was “Gigli.”

The actor filmed the romantic comedy with Jennifer Lopez, who he began dating after meeting her on set in 2002.

The movie was released a year later, but the media circus that surrounded their whirlwind romance and subsequent engagement did nothing to boost “Gigli’s” profile, and critics savaged the film.

Affleck and Lopez split in 2004, shortly before they were due to wed, but the movie experience was so bad, it has put the actor/director off the idea of teaming up on the big screen with Garner, his wife of five years.

He tells Us Weekly magazine, “Jen is a great actress. I would be profoundly lucky to work with her. But something tells me that people don’t want to see real-life couples together at the movies.”

Jamie Foxx is convinced he’s found the modern version of iconic comedy characters Laverne & Shirley – insisting Jessica Biel and Jennifer Garner are the next great funny duo.

Foxx co-stars with the pretty pair in new movie “Valentine’s Day,” and admits their off-screen chemistry reminded him of Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams’ banter in the classic U.S. TV show.

And the funnyman is so convinced Biel and Garner are destined to make a comedy together, he made sure director Garry Marshall took notes for a potential project.

Foxx says, “During the movie, they were doing stuff off-screen that reminded me of Laverne & Shirley. I think they’re the new Laverne & Shirley. They had some energy, and I mentioned that to Garry Marshall.”

Hollywood star Jennifer Garner was stunned when her request to appear on U.S. TV chef Ina Garten’s cookery program was snubbed because the actress wasn’t a “real friend”.

The “Elektra” star loves whipping up culinary delights for her husband Ben Affleck and their two young daughters and often tries out new recipes from Garten’s “Barefoot Contessa” show on the Food Network.

So Garner decided to reach out to Garten to see if she could help boost the profile of the show, and pick up a few cooking tips along the way, by making an appearance – but her request was rebuffed.

She tells W magazine, “I know somebody who is a friend of hers, and she says she’s going to get us together.

“I tried to get on Ina’s show… but eventually she just said, ‘I’m sorry, I only use my real friends on the show.’ I felt like, ‘What are you saying? That we’re not friends? I know everything about you!’”

Jennifer Garner’s alleged ‘stalker’ was arrested for violating his restraining order on Monday after he was found near the actress and Ben Affleck’s daughter Violet’s school. Steven Burky was ordered …

Jennifer Garner’s alleged ‘stalker’ was arrested for violating his restraining order on Monday after he was found near the actress and Ben Affleck’s daughter Violet’s school.

Steven Burky was ordered by a judge last month to stay away from the ‘Alias’ star’s family for the next three years.

He was also told to stay 100 yards from the actress, Affleck, Violet, the couple’s nanny, housekeeper and others.

Garner claimed “Mr. Burky has been stalking and harassing me,” sending “packages and letters containing delusional and paranoid thoughts and following me around the country … his obsessive and harassing behavior has escalated to the point of becoming dangerous and threatening”.

But the order hasn’t deterred Burky. He was arrested on Monday after he was found near 4-year-old Violet’s co-operative school in Los Angeles, according to RadarOnline.com.